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I grew up on the prairie cap rock of the Texas panhandle , and
started to read on my own from the Encyclopedia Britannica before I started
school. My parents had little education but probably never said no to any book
salesman or book club. In the sixth grade I was reading at the grade level of
13.5 at three times the average adult speed with comprehension in the top
percentile. When our daughter was four I noticed that on her own she was drawing
a wicker chair. I had done some drawing as a teenager but there wasn't much I
could show her, so I started doing research through the inter-library loan
system and borrowed books from private and public libraries across the U.S. With
this I added a little of my own ideas such as the little amount of spherical trigonometry
I picked up to get a handle on perspective. So here I am, and at 51 I still have
never physically been in an art class or art museum.